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HT to our friends at MediaMatters.org, an organization that does an outstanding job of fact-checking the right wing.Â With the president’s to school kids on the importance of staying in school (stuff you heard from yours parents when you were in school and what you tell your kids today) being politicized by the right wing…

Bill Maher has another outstanding show on HBO last night and his New Rules segment commentary was especially noteworthy (Steven Greenhut..this should be required reading for you!). download Dakota Skye download There Will Be Blood Excerpts from the commentary: How about this for a New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit.…

If columnist Jonah Goldberg can write a book about “Liberal Facism,” is was only a matter of time before someone truly looked into the notion of a “Nanny State,” a term Chuck DeVore has claimed to “coined” and “popularized,” and noted that rich conservatives are the chief beneficiary of Nanny State policies. Economist Dean Baker…

If Iâ€™m correct that Sarah Palin resigned as Alaska governor in order to lead a right wing movement that is ostensibly independent of the major political parties, then the next question is: where will she establish her new home and base of operations? The Northeast is too liberal, the South is too connected to racial…

Sarah Palin is not done causing headaches for the leadership of the Republican Party. In fact, my guess is that she is going to cause them far more pain in the near future than they or the media could ever have imagined. At this point, politicians and the press are trying to decipher Palinâ€™s motivation…

I received a link to this blog and laughed myself silly this morning reading the post “Republicanism Explained.”Â Â The First Draft blogÂ has some salty language, so I’m happy to send you to their site for you to read it yourself.Â Some select excerpts below: “So it comes down to this:Â Republicanism is an ideology by and…

Over the weekend in the OC Register’s Letters pages and in today’s Los Angeles Times local/California section are two distinct pieces that try to set a bottom or a baseline for conservative politics in California and nationally. The first is a extraordinarily long Letter to the Editor in the Register by Fritz Mehrtens of Irvine.Â …